The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the man whose body was discovered in a van in Salt Lake as Henry Lam, 56, of Honolulu.

The cause of his death was pending investigation Wednesday.

Police said Lam had been reported missing before he was found dead in a vehicle parked on Ala Puumalu Street after 11:25 a.m. Tuesday.

An area resident, who did not give his name, said the incident involved the police bomb squad and resulted in home evacuations for about 2-1/2 hours Tuesday.

The resident said the body was found after a neighbor reported an abandoned van parked on the street in front of a vacant lot. He said the white commercial van without rear side windows had been parked on the street since March 1.

Police evacuated Ala Puumalu residents in a roughly two-block stretch near Ala Ulike Place as a precaution, he said.

The man said he watched as a police bomb squad used a robot to smash the van window, then two officers suited in protective gear searched inside the van and found a man’s body.

Police detectives, firefighters and paramedics were also at the scene and the Medical Examiner’s Office recovered the body, he said.

Police have opened an unattended-death investigation.